Clinton emails: Lindsey Graham 'always talks how much he likes you'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) apparently likes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — he just thinks she’d do a terrible job as commander in chief.

In one of the some-3,000 Clinton emails released by the State Department on Tuesday, business executive Terrence Duffy wrote to Clinton congratulating her on her daughter’s engagement and then relayed well wishes from Graham.

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“Also I had dinner last night with a mutual friend of ours, Sen Lindsay [sic] Graham. Lindsay always talks how much he likes you and said if I were to be in contact with you to say hi from him,” Duffy wrote in the March 11, 2010, email. “Stay well and I look forward to hearing and seeing you soon.”

Graham is now running for president, and the Graham campaign said that even though the senator likes Clinton personally, they have serious disagreements.

“Of course Senator Graham likes Secretary Clinton as a person and they worked well together in the Senate,” Graham spokeswoman Brittany Bramell told POLITICO. “But, he fundamentally disagrees with her about how to defend and secure our nation. She is the third term of Obama’s failed foreign policy. Lindsey Graham represents a complete break with that disappointing legacy.”

The warm feelings would seem to go both ways: Clinton has likewise said she “worked well” with the South Carolina senator, though they may be potential campaign rivals now. In an interview with New Hampshire’s Concord Monitor in June, Clinton highlighted collaborating with Graham and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

“Now, we’ll go through the political season, and they’ll be cringing when I say I worked well with them. But my co-sponsor on health care for the National Guard and reserves was Lindsey Graham,” Clinton said. “And he may not want to be reminded of it, but we worked really hard to get that done.”

Graham, at moments, has also conceded that he doesn’t “dislike” Clinton before proceeding to bash er.

“I think she’s the architect of failed foreign policy,” Graham said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in April. “I think she’s the architect of failed foreign policy. Her and Bill did a better job with selling Obamacare than he did.”